Manufactured Home Prices

Federal survey data

This is one of the few home prices a federal survey actually publishes

Most home improvement prices are guesswork. Manufactured home prices are not. The Census Bureau runs the Manufactured Housing Survey, sponsored by HUD, and publishes average sales price by size, region and state¹.

For 2025, the average sales price of a new manufactured home sold or intended for sale was $127,200 nationally, $85,600 for a single-section home and $157,100 for a double-section¹. Average floor area that year was 1,471 square feet overall, with a median of 1,343². Single-section homes averaged 1,073 square feet and double-section 1,766².

Read the boundary of that number carefully. It is the sales price of the home. It does not include the land, site preparation, the foundation, utility connections, permits, delivery or installation. No federal agency publishes what any of those add, so this guide does not give you an installed total. Anyone who does is estimating.

Six ways to read the price data

The same survey slices the number several ways, and two of the tables are built on different bases.

By size, 2025

Section count is the largest single driver. In 2025 the national average was $85,600 for a single-section home and $157,100 for a double-section, against $127,200 across all sizes¹. That tracks floor area, which averaged 1,073 square feet single-section and 1,766 double-section².

By region, 2025

Averages across all sizes ran $125,400 in the Northeast, $113,600 in the Midwest, $126,900 in the South and $145,100 in the West¹. The West was the highest in both sizes, at $89,000 single-section and $167,600 double-section¹. Average floor area was largest in the South at 1,540 square feet².

By state, 2025

State averages across all sizes included California at $164,800, Arizona at $142,600, Florida at $133,500, North Carolina at $127,300, Texas at $124,500, Michigan at $107,800 and Wyoming at $94,400¹. Some state and size cells are blank because Census suppresses them for disclosure or marks them not applicable¹.

Per square foot against site-built

Census and HUD publish a direct comparison. For 2024, average cost per square foot was $84.45 for manufactured homes overall, $78.60 single-section and $86.71 double-section, against $168.86 for a site-built single-family home with the land stripped out³.

The monthly series

A separate monthly table reports by month of shipment. February 2026 came in at $134,800 nationally, $89,100 single-section and $163,100 double-section, after $131,700 in January⁴. That is a different basis from the annual sold-or-intended-for-sale table, so the two should not be compared as one series⁴.

Volume, for context

Shipments were 102,700 units in 2025 and 41,400 through May 2026⁵. Recent full years ran 103,300 in 2024, 89,200 in 2023, 112,900 in 2022 and 105,800 in 2021⁵. The figures are compiled from manufacturer reports to the Institute for Building Technology and Safety⁵.

New manufactured home, 2025 average$127,200

Double-section, 2025 average$157,100

What does it cost?

The 2025 national averages are $127,200 across all sizes, $85,600 single-section and $157,100 double-section, from the Census Bureau's Manufactured Housing Survey table of homes sold or intended for sale¹. The most recent monthly figure, on the separate month-of-shipment basis, is $134,800 for February 2026⁴. These are prices for the home as sold.

The comparison people want is against a site-built house, and only one version of it is honest. In 2024 the average manufactured home sold for $123,300 and the average site-built single-family home sold for $514,500, but the site-built figure is home and land as a package³. The per square foot line is the fair one: $84.45 against $168.86, with land excluded from the site-built side³. Census derives an average land price of $108,561 for that 2024 site-built home³.

All figures are Census Bureau Manufactured Housing Survey and Survey of Construction data, 2024 and 2025 annual and February 2026 monthly. They cover the home only and exclude land, site preparation, foundation, utility connections, permits, delivery and installation.

Hiring

How to use these numbers when you shop

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Who does the work

The price data comes from the Census Bureau's Manufactured Housing Survey, sponsored by HUD¹. Shipment counts are compiled separately from manufacturer reports to the Institute for Building Technology and Safety⁵. Nobody publishes retail quotes, so your actual price comes from a retailer, and the survey is the yardstick you hold it against.

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What pros will ask

Single-section or multi-section, because that is the biggest price and size split in the data¹². Then square footage, since the national average is 1,471 with a median of 1,343², and your region, because the 2025 spread ran from $113,600 in the Midwest to $145,100 in the West¹. Land ownership comes next.

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What to check before signing

Ask in writing what the quoted number includes. The federal survey price is the home alone, so delivery, set, foundation, utility connections, permits and site work sit outside it and no agency publishes what they cost. Compare the retailer's per square foot figure against the 2024 Census averages of $78.60 single-section and $86.71 double-section³.

Manufactured home price questions, answered straight

What does a new manufactured home cost on average?

In 2025 the average sales price of a new manufactured home sold or intended for sale was $127,200 nationally, according to the Census Bureau's Manufactured Housing Survey¹. Split by size, single-section homes averaged $85,600 and double-section homes $157,100¹. The survey also reports average floor area of 1,471 square feet for 2025, with a median of 1,343². Regional averages that year ranged from $113,600 in the Midwest to $145,100 in the West¹.

Does that price include the land?

No. The Manufactured Housing Survey price is for the home. Land is separate, and so are site preparation, the foundation, utility connections, permits, transport and installation. This matters most when comparing against a site-built house, because the Census site-built sales price of $514,500 for 2024 is home and land as a package³. The same table derives an average land price of $108,561 for that 2024 site-built home, which shows how much of the difference is ground rather than structure³.

How does the price compare to a site-built house?

Use cost per square foot, not sale price. For 2024, Census and HUD report $84.45 per square foot for manufactured homes overall, $78.60 single-section and $86.71 double-section, against $168.86 per square foot for a site-built single-family home with land excluded³. Average size differs too: 1,460 square feet for manufactured homes against 2,404 for site-built³. The sale price comparison, $123,300 against $514,500, is not like for like³.

What is the most recent price figure available?

Census publishes a monthly table by month of shipment. For February 2026 it reports a national average sales price of $134,800, with $89,100 for single-section and $163,100 for double-section homes, following $131,700 in January 2026⁴. Regionally that month ran $124,600 in the Northeast, $113,700 in the Midwest, $134,900 in the South and $163,700 in the West⁴. This table is built on a different basis from the annual one, so do not chain the two together⁴.

What will delivery and installation add to the price?

There is no published answer. Installation of a new manufactured home is federally regulated under the Model Installation Standards at 24 CFR Part 3285⁶, but no federal agency publishes what installation, transport, site preparation, foundation work, utility hookups or permits cost. That is the second largest thing a buyer pays for and it has no citable price. Get itemized written quotes locally and treat any national installed-cost range you see online as an estimate with no survey behind it.

Sources

Where these facts came from

Every figure on this page was read out of the page linked below. We do not cite cost aggregators.

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